History Theory category: 16752 books
Reader in Comedy
An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships...
The History of Reading
International Perspectives, c. 1500-1990
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature
A Globalization and Liberal Cosmopolitan Approach to Donne and Milton
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race...
The Wheel of Law
India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life? In The Wheel of Law, Gary Jacobsohn addresses this dilemma by examining the constitutional development of secularism in India within an unprecedented cross-national framework that includes Israel and the United...
Punishment and Inclusion
Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot...
Just Responsibility
A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
by Jason Glynos, David Howarth
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations...
by Onur Ulas Ince
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain celebrated its possession of a unique "empire of liberty" that propagated the rule of private property, free trade, and free labor across the globe. The British also knew that their empire had been built by conquering overseas territories, trading slaves, and...
The Poetics of Otherness
War, Trauma, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.
Modernism and the Social Sciences
Anglo-American Exchanges, c.1918–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading international scholars, Modernism and the Social Sciences explores the rise and nature of modernist tropes and approaches within social sciences such...
Burke’s Politics
A Study in Whig Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke’s speeches...
The divergences between maoism and classical marxist thought
The Divergences Between Maoism and Classical Marxist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 85%= good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: Political Theory- Marxian Tradition, language: English, abstract: This essay seeks to evaluate the differences between...
by J. C. C. Mays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C....